A Paragraph to Ponder

From the current issue of the Economist - -

"The Brookings Institution, a think-tank in Washington, DC, calculated in 2011 that the amounts committed through PPP for infrastructure increased fivefold between 1998-2007. Nonetheless, between 1990 and 2006 America financed a mere $10 billion of PPP for transportation infrastructure. Over the same period in Britain—where the economy is a sixth as large—the sum was $50 billion."